Swans on Tea

Sonar, aye.
I’ve been wretchedly sick the past week or so, with absolutely no desire to blog, but appear now to be on the mend. My appetite is returning (the loss of which is a sign that I am really ill) and I can actually concentrate on concepts again. And type (semi) coherently, which [...]

Chad admonished me for yesterday’s post on superconductors — and rightly so.
I scanned the article and assumed it was a blog about superconductors, and was quoting a press release. So the lack of a reference didn’t set off any alarms — citations aren’t always given. But I didn’t notice the bit [...]

Very Important Poll: Dot Physics Census
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go find as many different computers as I can to vote.
(I see there was a “not Tom” listed as one of the “other” submissions. That’s OK. If there’s an antiTom, though, I’m going to be worried.)

(That’s a line from William Steig’s wonderful book, CDB!)
I’ve been busy. I’m off to a family reunion soon and have been getting things prepared for my trip. Since I wanted to have something in the queue for when I am away from the internet, I’ve been hoarding posts. A few are ready [...]

The next Giant’s Shoulders is being hosted by fellow-SFN-blogger ecoli at Thoughts From Gut Bacteria

I meant to link to this before, but forgot until I ran across it again — 3 Quarks Daily is going to award prizes for good posts in the blogohedron
[I]n the interest of encouraging and rewarding good writing in the blogosphere, we have decided to start awarding four prizes every year in the respective areas [...]

I’m off to DAMOP. I’ve got a few posts in the queue, but other than that I’m probably diving deep and going silent until next week.
In the meantime, have some Jell-o shots. (1000 fps)
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(update: I don’t know what the [...]

Last week I posted Rolling, Rolling, Rolling, with the video about the moment-of-inertia problem with the liquid-filled and ice-filled soda cans. Nick submitted the post to reddit (Thanks!), and I got a spike in traffic about 25x normal, for a day or so. That makes it (by far) my most popular post to [...]

My blog host folks have a good sense of humor.

Pseudoscience Forums. Heh.
Last year they did a word swap. IIRC, if you wrote “science” it came out as “religion” after you posted, along with a couple of others.

Expect scattered posts to continue for the next two weeks. I’m off to the Great White North-of-the-Pennsylvania-Border.
My recent blogging has been light; I’m in my fantasy football league Superbowl for the first time, and these players require constant monitoring. (Two weeks ago I was way behind and implored my defense (Cardinals): rather [...]

It’s not you, it’s me. Really.
We seem to have had some technical problems.

Taking a week off, and I don’t expect to be blogging much, if at all. I have a couple of posts in the queue, though, so if I have internet access they’ll appear.